History Characters / MCURocketRaccoon

--->'''Rocket:''' ''Why do you still have it?!?!''

!!! '''Voiced and Portrayed By:''' Creator/BradleyCooper (voice), Creator/SeanGunn (motion capture and voice while young), Noah Raskin (infant), Oreo the Raccoon (movement and behavior modeling)[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Sergio Zurita [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Creator/EnriqueCervantes [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' onwards] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Logar Jr. (European Spanish dub), Koji Kato (Japanese dub), Creator/AlexisVictor (French dub), Maël Davan-Soulas (Canadian French dub), Mckeidy Lisita (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Sergey Kunitskiy [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Igor Lichadeev [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''], Phillip Voloshin [''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''] (Russian dub)[[/labelnote]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Being the only member of the original Guardians of the Galaxy to survive the events of ''Infinity War'' will allude to the fact that he's the true main protagonist of the [=GotG=] film trilogy.

A bounty hunter with a penchant for heavy weaponry and explosives, who also happens to be a talking raccoon.

!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn (on-set actor), Oreo the Raccoon (movement and behavior modeling)
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/BradleyCooper, Creator/SeanGunn (young), Noah Raskin (infant)[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Sergio Zurita [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Creator/EnriqueCervantes [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' onwards] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Logar Jr. (European Spanish dub), Koji Kato (Japanese dub), Creator/AlexisVictor (French dub), Maël Davan-Soulas (Canadian French dub), Mckeidy Lisita (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Sergey Kunitskiy [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Igor Lichadeev [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''], Phillip Voloshin [''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''] (Russian dub)[[/labelnote]]

** According to Nat in ''Endgame,'' he was caught at least once eating garbage offscreen.
** ''Vol. 3'' contains a rare instance of this being PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:While being mocked by the High Evolutionary, a young Rocket acts like any scared, angry racoon would and attacks the man's face. The absolute state of said face after Rocket's mauling is a testament to the fact that,]] despite his vast intelligence, Rocket is still an animal with sharp claws and fangs who will use them when cornered.

* SurvivorGuilt: Rocket constantly and deliberately antagonizes the universe, almost as if he ''wants'' it to beat the life out of him as punishment for [[spoiler:failing to save his childhood friends from the cages and guns of The High Evolutionary.]] He has ''never'' forgiven himself for this failure, believing that [[spoiler:he should have died *with* those who have loved and trusted him.]]

* BabysFirstWords: A tragic variant; after being given self-awareness as a ''days-old cub'' by having his brain modified and his skull stapled back together ''without anaesthetics'', his first words, wept to his new friends, defined his entire character.

* BestFriend: Rocket is Groot's closest friend. He is explicitly stated twice in ''Vol. 3'' to be Peter's best friend among the Guardians (much to [[GreenEyedMonster Drax's jealousy]]). They're so close that Peter was the most determined to save Rocket's life and even took everything the High Evolutionary did to him ''[[ItsPersonal very]]'' [[ItsPersonal personally]] (probably even more so than Rocket himself) upon learning about it, to the point where he's eager to ''kill'' him, and [[spoiler:cried when he died and again when he got revived]]. He also seems to be Nebula’s best friend after bonding with her in ''Endgame'', considering that in ''Vol. 3'', she openly calls him a friend, family (more openly compared to the other Guardians), and [[spoiler:weeps TearsOfJoy when she hears that he is alive and recovered]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even among a ragtag team like the Guardians, all of whom have troubled and depressing origins, Rocket ''still'' manages to stand out as the one with the most [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 nightmarish backstory]]. [[spoiler:As a kit he was kidnapped from Earth by the High Evolutionary, captured, vivisected while conscious and with no anaesthetic, pieced back together with cybernetics and pumped full of mutagens to make the cybernetics take that also gave him sentience and genius-level intelligence, he was part of an experiment by the High Evolutionary to create a utopia and revered his master, but he and his three cellmates (including his FirstLove Lylla) were then revealed to have never been intended for the new world and the High Evolutionary callously orders his friends' executions and Rocket's dissection. He attempted to escape with his friends, but they were all killed despite his best efforts (and Rocket left the [[ArchEnemy High Evolutionary]] horrifically [[FacialHorror disfigured]] in a fit of UnstoppableRage, leaving him with a strong desire for revenge) and he was forced to flee the base to escape his former master and his impending execution, leaving him to fend for himself in an unknown and hostile universe while still an adolescent.]] it's a wonder that he's even half as well-adjusted as he is. His past is so sad that while [[spoiler:the Guardians looked at files from his past, [[EveryoneCries everyone]] (especially [[TheHeart Mantis]]) [[EveryoneCries tears up]] and Nebula even states that what he went through was '''worse''' than what she went through with [[AbusiveParents Thanos]]]].

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch For a moment]], Rocket flatlines and has a near death experience complete with a [[AfterlifeAntechamber heaven-like setting]] and his deceased childhood friends there, however the override code miraculously implements successfully and Rocket is revived, much to Quill's delight]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: ''Vol. 3'' reveals via [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback flashbacks to his childhood]] that Rocket used to be a very innocent and child-like kit who was eager to impress his father figure, wanted to fly on rockets in the blue sky with his friends in the new world and had hope that he would do so. [[spoiler:Then said friends die by the hands by said father figure, and moments before that man said he wasn't worth anything other than his unique brain and was definitely ''not'' going to the new world]]. It's no wonder Rocket became a bitterly, even bitingly sarcastic, foul-mouthed, [[TheCynic cynical]] and generally misanthropic {{jerkass}} by the time we see him in the first movie.
* VocalDissonance: He has a fairly deep and gruff voice for such a small creature, especially when he speaks more slowly (The way he said "Oh... YEAH..." in the first movie, the way he said "Word" at the end of the third movie, and the way he said "The name's Rocket...Rocket Raccoon" are probably the most prominent examples)

!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/BradleyCooper (English), Creator/SeanGunn (young, English), Noah Raskin (infant, English), Sergio Zurita [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Creator/EnriqueCervantes [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' onwards] (Latin-American Spanish dub), Juan Logar Jr. (European Spanish dub), Koji Kato (Japanese dub), Creator/AlexisVictor (French dub), Maël Davan-Soulas (Canadian French dub), Mckeidy Lisita (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Sergey Kunitskiy [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' to ''Film/AvengersEndgame''], Igor Lichadeev [''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''], Phillip Voloshin [''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''] (Russian dub)

-->'''Rocket:''' ''[Timidly]'' Hurt...